I have been playin g guitar since 1961, I have owned well over 100 guitars, currently only 6.
I understand dry and wet and tremolo.
Tremolo is NOT in any way shape or form a fluctuation in amplitutede.
My wife is a skilled violinist of 50 some odd years. She was first chair, concert mistress of a well known symphony. Tremolo according to her has absolutely
N O T H I N G to do with a fluctation in amplitude.
Correctamundo.. and has zip all to do with a fluctuation in amplitude.
Go to djangobooks.com the Gypsy Jazz web site mostlky devoted to the Selmer Maccaferri Guitar and clones.. and playing etc.
put "wet" or "wetness" into the search ...
let me know what you find..
You were talking about tremolo. The topic remained tremolo.
I explained my theory of the evolution of the "Cajun" sound ergo from "wet" (tremolo) tuning to a drier tuning. ( limited or no tremolo)
I cannot account for ,or take responsibility, for misinformation or sidetracking from others.
I noticed in Bubba Brown's Creole Stomp video that he played a Sterling with the #3 stop down. Hohners have a wet reed set in that position, and to play it dry you just close that register.
If that is the case with Sterlings, Monarchs, and other old German boxes, then you had wetness on demand. The result would be tuning as varied as the song versions to suit the mood of the day.
And when boxes went out of tune...so much so it was difficult to determine a "base"...
the second set of middle reeds , over time< were often tuned to match the "440" set.